Unfair trial against Syrian human rights defender
The ICJ and other rights groups express their serious concern about the situation of human rights and human rights defenders in Syria.
Algeria: amnesty law risks legalizing impunity for crimes against humanity
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s proposal of a general amnesty for human rights abuses committed in the country’s brutal internal conflict may permanently deprive victims or their families of their right to truth, justice and reparation, rights groups warned today.
Algeria-amnesty law-press release-2005-eng (full text, PDF)
Men ‘behaving like women’ face flogging – sentences imposed for alleged homosexual conduct violate basic rights
In sentencing over 100 men to imprisonment and flogging after unfair trials for reputed homosexual conduct, Saudi Arabia has shown its contempt for the basic rights to privacy, fair trials and freedom from torture.
International Commission of Jurists observes Palestinian Presidential elections
At the request of its West Bank affiliate Al Haq, the ICJ sent a delegation of international observers to the Presidential elections of the Palestinian Authority, which took place on 9 January 2005.
ICJ condemns unfair trial of lawyer
The ICJ’s Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers said today that the trial of Syrian lawyer and human rights activist Akhtam Naisse is deeply flawed.
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